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Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 00:39:59 +0000
From: Tony Houghton <tonyh@tcp.co.uk>
To: willy@odie.barnet.ac.uk
Cc: linux-arm@vger.rutgers.edu
Subject: Re: Bad magic
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In message <199803031907.TAA00698@odie.barnet.ac.uk>
Matthew Wilcox <willy@odie.barnet.ac.uk> wrote:
> I haven't read Forrey's instructions, but you get bad magic when you
> attempt to boot from a hard disc that you haven't run `loadmap' on.
> What you should do is ensure that the Linux booter can't find its config
> files (cos there's a misfeature in the booter that I use. may have been
> fixed in later versions, I guess) and then boot it with -bootkernel (ie
> how you boot it the first time). Tell it `root=/dev/hda3' (or whatever)
> and then when you're booted, copy the kernel onto the hard disc, edit
> /etc/boot.conf appropriately and run loadmap -v.
Thanks for your help, but loadmap died with a segmentation fault (code
3).
Oh well, I think I'll go back to RiscBSD. I was just getting used to it,
but some frustrations made me want to look at ARMLinux - but it looks
like its headaches are even larger :-(. Not Russel's fault really,
nothing ported from UNIX to Acorns ever works properly, but at least
RiscBSD has several paid people working on it.
> > [1] Except that when installing RPMs it gave some "dne" (does not
> > exist?) errors, possibly connected with some of the file names being
> > truncated, which I couldn't be bothered to fix?
>
> Sounds right.
I fixed the filenames, but I still got the errors.
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